In which we debunk the eye-watering Adele Hyde Park ticket prices, note the crowd-losing absence of choruses in Nick Drake songs, remember the strangest onstage guests, marvel at McCartney’s childhood memories and applaud Steve Van Zandt’s theory about the beginning and end of rock music. And birthday patron Giles Fraser is piped aboard plus his proposition about rock and roll legacy.

Giles Fraser's Let's Fly: https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/lets-fly/

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Happy 50th to the Pink Moon recording sessions!